I Look Funny

I went to the George Eastman Museum yesterday to see a huge photo exhibit titled: "American, born Hungary."   The exhibition explores the work of thirty-four Hungarian-born photographers who eventually made their way - and sometimes their fortunes - in the United States, starting around 1937.  Some left Hungary to pursue new professional opportunities, while others were escaping rising antisemitism, fascism, and political turmoil, especially after World War I.  There were so many astounding photographs on display with an wonderful sense of creativity, and new ways of seeing photographs.  One photographer constructed a metallic mirror that was distorted because it was not flat but bent in a gentle "S curve and when you looked into it, and stood higher or bent lower, your image in the mirror was really distorted.  Of course I needed to try and get a photograph, and here it is!  I look all distorted!

This is a photograph of the mirror displayed on the wall.  It is not really. obvious until you get close to it, maybe 2 feet away, that you first see the distortion.  It is so much fun to look into and see what you can do to yourself.  The photographer photographed some nude models who were reflected in his special mirror.